A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.